Many of today’s items encourage us to do more thinking. Ask more questions. Consider your architectures before unleashing agents. Start with first principles. Hard to disagree with any of that.
[blog] You should all be asking way more questions. This statement applies to virtually every aspect of life. Unlock your inner four-year-old. Ask questions, express interest, pay attention to answers.
[blog] How I converted GenLatte to fullstack Dart. Here’s a good example of zooming out and thinking architecturally before setting AI loose on a refactoring.
[article] Survey: Lack of Confidence in Software Supply Chain Security Runs High. I’d have a lot of questions for anyone who said they were super confident in their supply chain right now. A lot of dependencies are being selected by AI agents, not humans.
[blog] First Principles Thinking. Understand the basic elements and build up solutions from there. That’s still something humans excel at.
[article] Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents. Can agents complete transactions with your app? If not, you’re already behind.
[article] Should workers be paid for AI skills? Interesting problem. Might you start paying new hires more for the AI skills you need, without compensating current staff that upskilled to the same level?
[blog] Pub/Sub AI Bytes: Part 3 — Generate and edit SMTs with Gemini in seconds. One of the examples here is notable. Many times, AI isn’t the point. The point is creating something that might have required specialized knowledge before. This shows that AI is helping users create message transformations faster.
[article] Why faster AI coding can mean harder engineering. Ok, maybe faster isn’t always better? These new gains mean new responsibilities.
[article] Companies are paying LLMs to generate text for decisions that only need a label. Jev offers a cheaper way. Smart point here that classification models are back because pre-training quality improved.
[article] OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite. Busy day from OpenAI. Their Dev Day had a ton of announcements. Here’s their own recap.
[blog] Top Gen AI Frameworks for Go in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison. Go’s got a rich ecosystem of AI frameworks at this point. How do you choose? This’ll help.
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